>>537709973
Wrong kind of difficult. If everything worked right, then yes this would be the most difficult and fun the game has been. But right now all the difficulty is in the bullshit.
>roaches instantly auto aim strafe killing you
>burrowing enemies phasing and insta killing you
>truck taking too much damage/flipping from bad enemy collision
>caves having bad terrain causing enemies to clip in and out of it
>issues with caves and call-ins
It kills me that I can see the fun in all this but nope they had to be retarded, perfunctory swedes and release this shit so half baked it's obvious to anyone with eyes. They didn't even need to, they could have fixed it over the next few weeks and everyone would have been happy.

>squids currently most played faction
Fucking what. Are Xbros just like, retarded or something I don't get it.

>>536673864
>you assumed they checked and did actual estimates
The arrogant Swede did not even consider failure to be an option. They assumed every single Xbox player would be salivating to get their Cheeto dust claws on their game (sent from heaven). The numbers will be adjusted, especially because Xtards will be playing on Diff 1-5 for a while where like 3 bugs spawn per mission.

>>534354519
I think it's just another page in the file for "Automatons are just a foil for Super Earth"
>entire society dedicated to the war effort
>churn out low quality, mass quantity expendable armed forces
>wholesale unrepentant slaughter of enemy forces with zero regard to civilian casualties
>uniform architecture copy/pasted on all their controlled worlds
>environmental exploitation and rapid expansion to grab natural resources
>harvesting a sentient species for fuel
>warcrimes, numerous
>uniform appearance with little to no deviation within military divisions
List goes on but you get the point. Automatons are just us but with a different coat of paint.

Except we're the good guys, of course.

>>533659210
>Back in the office Aug 4th
>minimum one week until patch
>narrowhead can't stop fucking up so they rush a bugfix patch because Xbox launch in 24 days
>Aug 11th, bugfix patch day
>it's a disastrous mess that breaks the game in even more fucked up ways
>they forgot to even coordinate with the Xbox port team
>the game is literally falling apart
>the swedes finally realize they're in deep shit with promises to daddy Microsoft to keep
>full heads down development actual crunch
>Aug 18th, no patch, no communication
>people are barely able to launch the game, potential Xbox buyers checking out streamers who are struggling to even play the game consistently
>player count bottoming out
>Aug 25th, 3 days until Xbox launch
>swedistan forgets they also had to add content for the Xbox update
>haphazardly slam the undeveloped content into their bugfix patch to fix the bugfix patch that was supposed to fix all the summer update bugs
>push the patch with zero testing
>game might as well be a dev environment at this point, enemies are pathing into the air, framerate in the 30s; it's an unmitigated disaster
>3 days until Xbox launch
>HOTFIXHOTFIX
>manage to only fix the bugs that literally prevent the game from running and executing
>Xbox launch, Xbox port studio immediately quits
>Xbox players are treated to the most broken and fucked up state the game has ever been in
Calling it now.

Despair Edition
Previous thread: >>532701950

>WHAT IS HELLDIVERS 2?
HELLDIVERS 2 is a 2024 crossplay, co-op, squad-based, PvE 3rd person shooter for PC, PS5 and XBox Series X/S where players fight against hordes of alien insects, robots and squids to Spread Democracy™. Players wage war on a number of contested planets, each with a different environment, completing as many objectives as possible in a procedurally generated level while constrained by a time limit. With enough successful operations, a planet can be defended or liberated, and the player base must cooperate to try to liberate the entire galaxy by focusing and combining their efforts as much as possible.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/553850/HELLDIVERS_2/
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/helldivers-2/
https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/helldivers-2/9mx9wn9dfpgt

>WHAT ABOUT THE FIRST HELLDIVERS GAME?
Released in 2015 for PC, PS3/4 and PS Vita, the original HELLDIVERS is a shared screen top-down shooter in the same setting. Its mechanics were based primarily on Arrowhead's first game, Magicka.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/394510/HELLDIVERS_Dive_Harder_Edition/
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/helldivers/


>LOBBY HOSTING
https://files.catbox.moe/83ixkr.png
>MODDING
https://files.catbox.moe/c81ogo.png

>INFORMATION RESOURCES
https://helldivers.wiki.gg/
https://helldiverscompanion.com/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1xA_wuSuV6NORqUCt1aZ203raG4HuUJ85btqmn0ld56U/htmlview

>MAJOR NEWS
Jul 02 Warbond Token https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/516339785321679794
Jul 03 XBox release Aug 26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTs9VDm4KAU
Jul 17 Control Group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8FKZG2lPBw
>LATEST PATCHES
Jul 15 1.003.200 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/601909716088521243
Jul 16 1.003.201 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/516341688493408284

Actual non-shitter takes
>War Strider is cool and fun to fight, especially in groups, but should have an AP3 vent weakpoint, or AP4 weakpoint in either the eye or the top slit
>bot megacities are kino
>warbond content looks fun
>swede butchery of the code is still in full effect and people are right to be upset about how the performance and technical state continue to degrade with every single update
>squids are still the worst faction because zombies are boring
>Narrowhead forgot how to make different parts of the enemies have different armor values hence why both new enemy types developed post-release have universal armor values with no variation or weakpoints
>the flag being covered in blood gives it strange and arcane powers over the enemies to make them act unpredictably
Thanks and have a great thread.

>>529787627
>dude let's build this new training facility 2 jumps away from where the bots are right now
>oh ho ho players we can't have you taking the planet that will link us to the next nothingburger railroaded story but! Time for a bug MO right as you were about to liberate a planet!
I hate Joel with a passion I haven't felt since the first time I felt a titty.

>excited that we finally get more bot variants added to the jet brigade
>they still have the mass exploder problem
>everything is instantly deleted with primaries or the same old weakpoint tactics
Hoo boy Sweden you guys fucking SUCK ASS at this shit.

>>528804447
nobody with a taste for good images has any desire to do it you utterly aesthetically blind moron lmfao